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Alan Voss

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Alan Voss is a veteran technology architect and lifelong astronomy enthusiast who writes hard science fiction grounded in real physics.

His COSMIC THRESHOLDS collection puts working scientists in front of the universe's most extreme phenomena and asks what happens next. A solar physicist discovers a magnetar close enough to sterilize Earth's atmosphere. A governor leads 2,000 colonists onto a tidally locked planet where the wind never stops. An astrobiologist descends through twenty one kilometers of ice into an ocean on a rogue planet drifting between the stars. An astrophysicist builds a telescope to peer into the one region of the sky no one has ever seen, and the data starts looking back. Each story starts with a real object, a real process, a real piece of physics, and follows it to its human consequences.

The stories are standalone novelettes, each about 18,000 words, designed to be read in a single sitting and in any order. The science is accessible. The physics is real. The protagonists are professionals who understand exactly what they are facing, which tends to make things worse.

Alan grew up reading Arthur C. Clarke, Gregory Benford, and Peter Watts, and their fingerprints are all over this work.
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    • The Pull

    • A Hard Science Fiction Quest Beyond the Blind Spot
    • By: Alan Voss
    • Narrated by: Eve Walker
    • Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 25-03-2026
    • Language: English
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